May 2012
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Jordan's one sentence movie reviews: White Irish...
if can’t hardly wait was a family drama set in 1975 Brooklyn, it’d be this movie. four stars
May 12th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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a list, in a very particular order
of the plays of shakespeare that i have read, Macbeth is definitely my favorite. the ranking goes as follows: Macbeth King Lear The Tempest A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Winter’s Tale Cymbeline Twelfth Night Romeo and Juliet Much Ado About Nothing The Merchant of Venice Taming of the Shrew
May 6th
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May 6th
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April 2012
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“Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, behind the...”
– from ‘At Last the Secret is Out’ by W.H. Auden (via hermionejg)
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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people in this fandom don’t understand how time works.
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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“They’re not women’s clothes. They’re my clothes. I bought them.”
– Eddie Izzard (via exorcistor) love of my life.
Apr 27th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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thoughts from the basement
we were discussing 9/11 trauma narratives and novels that are oblique meditations on 9/11 in my American Novel class when i had an absurd thought - WHAT IF DEATHLY HALLOWS IS JK ROWLING’S 9/11 NARRATIVE dumbledore’s death would be like the falling of the towers, and then afterwards everything changes…this made more sense in my head. on a completely unrelated note -...
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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my theatre troupe's tumblr →
Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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March 2012
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Mar 31st
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Anonymous asked: Hey, so I really want to go to Vassar as well. How did you get in? I'm just curious to see if I have a shot or not.
Mar 31st
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in other news, i'm a cunt.
it makes me really happy when my high school’s current salutatorian gets waitlisted for Vassar. you should’ve seen her resume. editor of the paper. captain of the quiz bowl team. swim instructor to the disabled. star of the musical. her guidance counselor must’ve shit herself. And she’s probably a very sweet girl. it just makes me feel more legitimately special that i got...
Mar 28th
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Mar 25th
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damn, it feels good to be a gangster.
i sassed my self-defense instructor because he was being inarticulate. then i flipped him over my shoulder like a sweaty, over-cologned ragdoll.
Mar 20th
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Mar 19th
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my professor's comments on my midterm paper made...
on my opening paragraph: “I read on, with interest!” in response to this sentence- “Why at this point the production decided to be historically accurate, when it seems to resist any specific temporal setting for the most part, is beyond me.” - he said: “I doubt it. You’re a fine critic. Don’t be coy!” in response to this sentence - “The...
Mar 19th
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Mar 11th
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i think i'm stretching the definition here.
all this Kony 2012 stuff is giving me a migraine. jesus. yes, what Kony is doing is awful. is it a new awfulness? no. can we help? yes. is all this internet hoopla helping? well, that’s a completely different barrel of monkeys. ignorant people are ignorant, cynical people are cynical. can we move on from the tautologies?
Mar 7th
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“and why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for knowing that neither his divinity nor...”
– old school, tobias wolff i hate to be that english major, but it’s been a while since i’ve read a novel that i wholeheartedly love as a novel, and not as a world i wish to enter or a set of characters i wish to meet, that was published since 1970. but this one really got me. tobias...
Mar 2nd
February 2012
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Feb 19th
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Feb 17th
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“You didn’t care, so I went on and on dancing alone, and no matter what happens,...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald to F. Scott, 1930 (via slippery-words)
Feb 16th
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“beauty is a simple passion,/ but, oh my friends, in the end/you will dance the...”
– anne sexton, snow white and the seven dwarves
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Listen“wuthering heights” by kate bush (this...
Feb 6th
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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“Who in their right mind would pay for their daughter to go to Vassar? Just a...”
– comment on this article all the comments are pretty capital-h Hilarious, as well as seriously offensive (what the hell is illegitimate about africana or jewish studies?). but what really got me was the “Film” on the list of “left-wing self-righteous” majors. bahaha. and you,...
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“Thus this initial opening points to the subliminal relationship between song and...”
– girl in my greek and roman studies class, in a blog post i want to yell, “BITCH, IN YOUR UNCEASING ATTEMPTS TO SOUND INTELLIGENT, YOU’VE JUST BECOME A REDUNDANT JACKASS.”
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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